UNSOLVED MYSTERY

TWO CHICAGO ATTORNEYS HAVE MADE THE STARTLING CLAIM THAT SERIAL KILLER JOHN WAYNE GACY, accused of raping then killing 33 males during the 1970s, may have had three accomplices.

Defense attorneys Robert Stephenson and Steven Becker “unearthed evidence that indicates he didn’t act alone,” according to Chicago’s WGN which reported the news Thursday along with the Chicago Sun-Times.

“There is significant evidence out there that suggests that not only did John Wayne Gacy not operate alone, he may not have been involved in some of the murders, and the fact that he was largely a copycat killer,” Stephenson told WGN. The defense team suspect the serial killer used others to “procure young boys over state lines.”

Prompted by a mother’s doubts over the identity of one man believed killed by Gacy, the attorneys spent months reviewing victims’ cases which led to the discovery of new information. Among their findings: Gacy was out of town when three of the victims disappeared. And two of the victims were suffocated to death while Gacy typically stranged his victims.

The new reports also claim that when Gacy was picked up, he asked the arresting officer, “Who else do you have in the station? There are others involved.”

Gacy, a contractor who also worked as a clown at children’s parties, was executed in 1994, 14 years after being convicted of killing 33 men and boys. Twenty-nine of the bodies were uncovered in the crawlspace of his house; others were found in a nearby river.

Gacy’s attorney, Sam Amirante, dismissed the new suspicions. ” We thought about it,” he told WGN. “But we just never saw any evidence.”

Seven of the bodies recovered at Gacy’s house still remain unidentified.